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  • Art & Culture

    Beyond Blindness

    Letizia Airos(September 10, 2019)
    On view for the first time in the United States, at Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, the drawings Carlo Levi realized during the artist’s retinal detachment. This is the story of a farmer from the gulf of Milazzo, who emigrated to Switzerland and decided to buy the works and keep them safe inside a barn.
  • Arte e Cultura

    Oltre la cecità

    Letizia Airos(September 10, 2019)
    In mostra per la prima volta in America, alla Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò. I disegni e gli scritti che Carlo Levi realizzò durante il distacco della retina. La storia di un contadino del golfo di Milazzo, emigrato in Svizzera, che li ha voluti comprare per poi proteggerli in un fienile
  • The Sassi di Matera (Stones of Matera)
    Tourism

    Matera and Other Hidden Treasures of Basilicata

    Goffredo Palmerini(December 02, 2018)
    While we ready for this fascinating journey through a very tiny, yet gigantic region, we wonder, “How can such a small place have so much to offer?” A part of Italy’s Mezzogiorno that is still little known to mass tourism, Basilicata is blossoming these days. And one of its most beautiful cities. And Matera, capital of Basilicata, as you probably know, has been chosen as the European Capital of Culture for 2019. So 2019 will be a special year for this beautiful, unique city.
  • Matera in Basilicata, European Capital of Culture 2019
    Art & Culture

    Fashion in Matera, the European Culture Capital of 2019

    In the ninth edition of Città dei Sassi Fashion Awards, an international competition for high fashion stylists, Sardinian designer Mara Piras came out on top in Matera.
  • Facts & Stories

    Matera: European Culture Capital 2019

    N. L.(October 29, 2014)
    Matera simply is one of the most unusual and memorable cities in Italy. Basilicata's favorite city was just picked as European Culture Capital 2019, beating some all time-favorites Cagliari, Lecce, Perugia-Assisi, Ravenna and Siena. The initiative is meant to highlight the richness and diversity of cultures in Europe, to celebrate the cultural features Europeans share, to increase European citizens’ sense of belonging to a common cultural area, and to foster the contribution of culture to the development of cities.